Paricanoides Liang, 2003

Pham, Jérôme Constant and Hong Thai, 2014, A new species of Paricanoides Liang, 2003 from Northern Vietnam (Hemiptera: Fulgoromorpha: Tropiduchidae), Belgian Journal of Entomology 24, pp. 1-9 : 1-9

Genus Paricanoides Liang, 2003

Paricanoides LIANG, 2003: 362 . Type species: Paricanoides orientalis Liang, 2003 (by original designation).

We follow here the definition of the genus and the tribal placement in the Paricanini Melichar, 1914 given by LIANG (2003).

The genus shows also similarities with the tribe Isporisini Fennah, 1982 not only in the shape of the antennae and the number of lateral spines on the metatibiae as mentioned by LIANG (2003), but also in the shape of the male genitalia (see also LIANG & WANG, 2008; WANG et al., 2008; CONSTANT, 2010; CONSTANT & PHAM, 2013). However, the current lack of any phylogenetic analysis of the Tropiduchidae does not allow us to propose any well-supported change in the tribal attribution (see also WANG et al., 2013).